Barkby Brook
Joins the Soar above Pillings Lock, no more than 14.6 km by river above Pillings Lock.
| Syston Town | 0.10 mASD 27m ago | Normal |
Its water passes Pillings Lock and every gauge below it on the Soar.
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Live levels from 5 monitoring stations across City of Leicester, Leicestershire, updated every 15 minutes.
| Station | Level now | Status | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sharnford | 0.21 mASD 27m ago | Normal | ||
| 12.2 km by river | ||||
| Littlethorpe | 0.65 mASD 27m ago | Normal | ||
| downstream, distance by river not measured | ||||
| Freemans Weirstructure | 0.19 mASD 27m ago | Normal | ||
| downstream, distance by river not measured | ||||
| Pillings Lockstructure | 0.96 mASD 27m ago | Normal | ||
| 14.4 km by river | ||||
| Kegworth | 0.46 mASD 27m ago | Normal | ||
Stations are listed from source to mouth as the water flows, traced on the river map (OS Open Rivers) and the Environment Agency’s own links between its gauges. A distance “by river” is along the river, and is shown only where the map traces the path.
Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database rights 2026.
Streams and rivers with a gauge whose water joins the Soar above one of its gauges, from the source down. Named streams without a gauge that have a page here are listed at the end.
Joins the Soar above Pillings Lock, no more than 14.6 km by river above Pillings Lock.
| Syston Town | 0.10 mASD 27m ago | Normal |
Its water passes Pillings Lock and every gauge below it on the Soar.
Joins the Soar above Pillings Lock, no more than 21.1 km by river above Pillings Lock.
| Leicester Cannock Street | 0.23 mASD 4h ago | Normal |
Its water passes Pillings Lock and every gauge below it on the Soar.
Joins the Soar above Pillings Lock, no more than 2.8 km by river above Pillings Lock.
| QUORN, MEMORIAL GARDENS | 0.18 mASD 27m ago | — |
Its water passes Pillings Lock and every gauge below it on the Soar.
Joins the Soar above Pillings Lock, no more than 13.5 km by river above Pillings Lock.
| Frisby on the Wreakestructure | 0.47 mASD 27m ago | Low |
| 13.9 km by river | ||
| Syston | 1.46 mASD 27m ago | Normal |
Its water passes Pillings Lock and every gauge below it on the Soar.
Joins the Soar above Pillings Lock, no more than 12.5 km by river above Pillings Lock.
| Glenfield | 0.78 mASD 27m ago | Normal |
| 11.0 km by river | ||
| Rothley | 0.14 mASD 27m ago | Low |
Its water passes Pillings Lock and every gauge below it on the Soar.
Joins the Soar above Pillings Lock, no more than 9.5 km by river above Pillings Lock.
| Sileby | 0.24 mASD 27m ago | Normal |
Its water passes Pillings Lock and every gauge below it on the Soar.
Joins the Soar between Pillings Lock and Kegworth, no more than 11.9 km by river above Kegworth.
| Shepshed | 0.67 mASD 27m ago | Normal |
Its water passes Kegworth and every gauge below it on the Soar. It does not pass Pillings Lock or the gauges above it.
Joins the Soar between Pillings Lock and Kegworth, no more than 11.4 km by river above Kegworth.
| Loughborough | 0.03 mASD 27m ago | Low |
Its water passes Kegworth and every gauge below it on the Soar. It does not pass Pillings Lock or the gauges above it.
Below Kegworth, its water next reaches Clifton Bridge, a gauge on River Trent, 18.0 km by river downstream.
Tributaries and where they join are traced on the river map (OS Open Rivers, edition 2026-04) and the Environment Agency’s links between its gauges. The map holds distances between gauges, not the junctions themselves, so a junction is placed between two gauges, and no further up than the tributary’s own lowest gauge. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database rights 2026.
90 storm overflows are traced upstream of Kegworth, the Soar’s lowest gauge on the river map: on the Soar itself, on its gauged tributaries, and on smaller streams that join above there.
Official figures for 2025, for the overflows traced upstream of Kegworth: 1,278 spills over 7,889 hours in total, across the 89 that have a figure. 1 has no 2025 figure.
Each overflow is listed in the stretch above the first gauge its water reaches, from the source down, as on the Gauges tab. A stretch of the Soar includes the smaller streams that join it there. Where a stretch or a tributary has more than 4, the 3 discharging now or nearest its gauge are listed, the rest are counted, and every one is in that gauge’s “Upstream of here” list. Show every overflow in every stretch →
and 13 more: show all 16 overflows on this stretch → All above Littlethorpe, nearest first →
and 4 more: show all 7 overflows on this stretch → All above Freemans Weir, nearest first →
and 13 more: show all 16 overflows on this stretch → All above Pillings Lock, nearest first →
and 25 more: show all 28 overflows on the Wreake and the streams that join it → All above Syston, nearest first →
and 4 more: show all 7 overflows on Rothley Brook and the streams that join it → All above Rothley, nearest first →
and 8 more: show all 11 overflows on this stretch → All above Kegworth, nearest first →
Within 3 km of one of the Soar’s gauges in a straight line, but the river map cannot say whether their water reaches it.
42 more near these gauges whose connection is not known.
3 other overflows within 3 km of these gauges are placed below the Soar’s lowest gauge or on another river, so not listed.
A status is the water company’s own monitor: it says whether an overflow is discharging, never how much or why, and a spill does not by itself explain a change in a river level. A status older than two hours is shown as unknown. Annual figures are the official returns: 12/24-hour spills for England and Wales, overflow events for Scotland (Scottish Water counts differently, so the two cannot be compared). “No data” means the monitor produced no usable data that year, not zero. Overflows are placed on OS Open Rivers (edition 2026-04), which leaves out many small channels: an overflow the map cannot place may still drain here. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database rights 2026. Sewage in Britain’s rivers →
Live status: © Severn Trent Water storm overflow activity data, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Annual figures for England: Environment Agency Event Duration Monitoring return, © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Dated samples taken by the Environment Agency, not live readings. Results are published days to months after the sample is taken, and many points are sampled only a few times a year, or have not been sampled for years.
104 sampling points on the River Soar and the streams that join it above Kegworth, and below it. 54 have a sample from the last 12 months; 63 have any sample banked.
Sampled most recently, anywhere on the Soar and its streams:
| Where, from the source down | Sampling points | Newest sample |
|---|---|---|
| River Wreake and its streamsjoins the Soar above Pillings Lock | 37 points23 sampled | 14 Sep 2026 |
| Rothley Brook and its streamsjoins the Soar above Pillings Lock | 7 points3 sampled | 7 Sep 2026 |
| Above Leicester Cannock StreetMelton Brook · joins the Soar above Pillings Lock | 1 point | 7 Sep 2026 |
| Above Syston TownBarkby Brook · joins the Soar above Pillings Lock | 1 point0 sampled | none banked |
| Above QUORN, MEMORIAL GARDENSQuorn Brook · joins the Soar above Pillings Lock | 3 points1 sampled | 2 Dec 2024 |
| Above Pillings Lock | 9 points5 sampled | 11 Sep 2026 |
| Above ShepshedBlack Brook · joins the Soar above Kegworth | 7 points6 sampled | 3 Sep 2026 |
| Above LoughboroughWood Brook · joins the Soar above Kegworth | 1 point | 8 Sep 2026 |
| Above Kegworth | 16 points12 sampled | 2 Sep 2026 |
| Above Littlethorpe | 18 points9 sampled | 1 Sep 2026 |
| Above Freemans Weir | 2 points1 sampled | 7 Sep 2026 |
| Below the lowest gauge | 2 points1 sampled | 6 Aug 2026 |
England's samples only. Each count opens the list of those points, nearest first, with the date of each one’s latest sample (the gauge’s “Upstream of here” list).
FloodRadar does not grade these results: there is no overall score, and official river classifications are a separate dataset. A sample taken downstream of an overflow does not by itself show where anything in it came from. River connections and distances are traced on OS Open Rivers (edition 2026-04), which leaves out many small channels.
Water samples: Environment Agency Water Quality Archive, © Environment Agency and/or database right 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database rights 2026.
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